A14 crash in Mid Suffolk on 12 April 2011 at 00:10 involving a Citroen Saxo
A Citroen Saxo crashed on the A14 in Mid Suffolk at 00:10 on Tuesday 12 April 2011. The 25-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Apr 2011
- Tuesday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.11229, longitude 1.10558, in the IP6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blakenham, Mid Suffolk, IP6 0HU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mid Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2011370163211
- Council area
- Mid Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 14
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 January 2004.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mid Suffolk, 15 January 2004
22 m awayRef 200437G014325
Serious
Lorry crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 9 February 1989
30 m awayRef 1989371022700
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A45 in Mid Suffolk, 18 November 2001
54 m awayRef 200137G009594
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 10 September 2004
63 m awayRef 200437G015761
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 17 February 2014
120 m awayRef 201437EA78875
Slight
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the A14 in Mid Suffolk, 6 October 2008
134 m awayRef 200837G025812
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen Saxo)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2011370163211 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mid Suffolk road accident statistics for 2011.